From The Register, March 14:
Billions continue to pour into bit barns across the globe
Fears that AI may be a bubble about to burst have yet to dent datacenter investment, with a handful of new developments revealed this week.
GPU cloud provider CoreWeave has struck a deal with Nordic operator Bulk Infrastructure to serve up a large-scale Nvidia compute cluster from the latter's N01 Datacenter Campus in Norway.
According to CoreWeave, its infrastructure using the GPU maker's DGX GB200 NVL72 server platform installed at the site will make it one of the largest Nvidia-based AI deployments in Europe.
Bulk has secured 400 MW of renewable energy for the facility, with the potential to expand up to 1 GW.
Expected to be operational by summer, this project is understood to be part of an initial investment of $2.2 billion announced by CoreWeave across Europe for building new datacenters and procuring available capacity.
Karianne Tung, Norway's minister of digitalization and public governance, says the Norwegian government's goal is to establish a national infrastructure for AI toward 2030.
In Japan, investment biz SoftBank plans to convert a former Sharp LCD panel factory into a datacenter to operate AI agents developed jointly with ChatGPT creator OpenAI.
The Japanese megacorp confirmed it has signed an agreement for the site in Sakai City, Osaka prefecture, of approximately ¥100 billion ($672 million), and intends to have a bit barn with a capacity of 150 MW operational by 2026, with a possible expansion to "more than" 250 MW....
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